“RAW Power” App Brings Aperture Style Interface & Functions to Mac Photos… for just $10 (Limited Time Offer)

A fellow FR-reader just dropped me a link to a RAW converter software that might be interesting for some fellow X-shooters out there. It’s called RAW Power.

RAW Power is a Photos extension plug-in (but can be used also as standalone app), that gives you complete access to the macOS RAW engine in an intuitive interface that will feel very familiar to Aperture users largely because of who wrote it, Nik Bhatt, who was the man behind Apples Aperture. Nik Bhatt has left Apple and today creates Apps such as RAW Power.

RAW Power uses the same technology that sits underneath Photos, but this plug-in gives you access to all the controls to devolop the RAW images. You can make fixes and improvements that are simply impossible to make in Photos. It also has some features that were not present even in Aperture.

You can now grab RAW Power for $10 bucks (limited time offer), and use it as standalone App or embedd it into Apples Photos Application.

UPDATE: As Ben noted in the comments:

Uses Apple’s macOS built-in RAW support… so it doesn’t work with compressed RAF

I’ll share 2 videos below, the first one is a short introduction to RAW Power, and the second one is a video 34 minutes chat at TWiP with Nik Bhatt.

7 Days Left to Win $3,000 with the Big FujiRumors/BHphoto Fujifilm GFX Sweepstake

You have time until February 9, 2017, to enter the big Fujifilm GFX Sweepstake and win $3,000.

How?

Just purchase the Fujifilm GFX from B&H through the link provided on the FujiRumors website during the Entry period, and voilá, you are in :)

Here are the main Sweepstake Conditions* and Details:

  • You must be US resident and at least 18 years old
  • You can enter starting from January 19 at 00:30 AM NY-Time, through February 9, 2017
  • Click on any Fujifilm GFX B&H link from our website and pre-order the GFX on that visit.
  • The BHphoto system will track your FujiRumors GFX pre-order and you will automatically enter the contest. You will not get any email notification that you joined the sweepstake.
  • One (1) winner will be selected randomly by BHphoto on or about April 3, 2017
  • The winner will get an AMEX gift card pre-valued at $3000
  • Yep, it’s that easy :-)

And if you are one those, who thinks “I never win something“, then you might check out the FujiRumors guest post of last years’ X-Pro2 sweepstake winner Frank Stein here, who said:

“I never win anything. I do not count multiple wins of detention in junior high school – but that was 50 years ago. So, needless to say, I was surprised to be the winner of the Fuji Rumors/B&H Photo “Win a X-Pro2” contest.”

Just a few people are pre-ordering the GFX via FujiRumors…  and that’s good, since this increases a lot your chance to win :-) . So, if you pre-ordered your GFX and didn’t use the BH link provided here on FujiRumors, you might consider to cancel your old order and pre-order it again at BHphoto here.

Good luck to everyone,
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Fujifilm GFX: USA BHphoto – Win $3,000 by pre-ordering at BH via FR*, Adorama, AmazonUS EU: AmazonDE, AmazonUK, WexUK, ParkCamerasUK, PCHstore AUS: CameraPro
*Pre-order the GFX at BHphoto using the FujiRumors B&H link to enter the contest. Price: $3,000. Sweepstake Overview & Rules can be found here. Full Terms & Conditions here.

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Which APS-C Lenses Should Fujifilm Develop Next? :: Your Suggestions to Fujifilm Here!

Ok… it’s time to collect some fresh ideas for the Fujifilm Management responsible for the X-series.

So let’s sit down together and invest a bit of our time to make some suggestions to Fujifilm. I’m sure they will read them, and also the poll I’ll make later on out of your suggstions will be for sure something Fujifilm will look at.

Of course, keep your suggestions realistic (so no XF 8-300mmF2 pancake lens) and try to make 1 or 2 suggestions, not more. Share only your absolute priorities.

Fujifilm Fiscal Year FY2017/3 3rd Quarter Financial Results Report… and the Unstoppable Rise of Instax

Fujifilm just published here the results for the fiscal year 2017 (3rd quarter – until December 31, 2016)

“In  the  Imaging  Solutions  segment,  consolidated  revenue  amounted  to  ¥256.4  billion  (down  5.9%  from  the  same  period  of  the  previous  fiscal  year),  due  to  the  negative  impact  of  yen  appreciation  (¥31.0  billion)  and  other factors.  Consolidated  operating  income  amounted  to  ¥28.1  billion  (up  5.9%  from  the  same  period  of  the  previous  fiscal  year),  due  to  the  recovery  of  profitability  in  each business,  though  the  negative  impacts  on  sales  from  yen appreciation were seen.

[…] The sales of instant photo systems such as the instax series and instax films, were strong especially in the United States and Europe.

In the electronic imaging field, the sales increased due to the sales of such flagship models of the mirrorless digital camera as FUJIFILM X-Pro2 and FUJIFILM X-T2 , and interchangeable lenses increased steadily.

So once again, it’s Fujifilm high-end cameras (X-T2 more than X-Pro2), but especially the Fuji Top Selling Instax Universe, to improve Fujifilm’s profitability in the imaging divison.